Eldon Farthing examines a truck during the War Assets Administration's surplus sale, Port Hueneme, May 1946

Item Overview

Title

Eldon Farthing examines a truck during the War Assets Administration's surplus sale, Port Hueneme, May 1946

Date Created

between May 20 and May 26, 1946

Date

1946-05-20/1946-05-26

Publisher

Los Angeles Daily News

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Notes

Description

Eldon Farthing from Covallis, Oregon looks at a rusty truck at the War Assets Administration's surplus truck and trailer sale at Port Hueneme. The sale was open to veterans only and included 5499 vehicles valued at about $14,000,000 total.

Caption

Text from original nitrate sleeve: War Assets Corporation - War Materials Surplus sale at Port Hueneme, Calif., May 1946: Drive-Away trucks: Sanchez, Manuel - San Pedro; Fletcher, Robt - LA; Fetherston, F.W. - Corvallis, Ore. (rusty truck); Goode, S.M. and Mrs. - Dana, Calif. (broken bow on truck); Farthing, Eldon - Corvallis, Ore. (rusty truck); Wilson, Leonard J.; Roberts, George - Reseda, Calif. (first truck sold); Roberts, George and Smurr, Hylen L.
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: [Farthing]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Names

Farthing, Eldon
United States. War Assets Administration

Location

Port Hueneme

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Veterans--American
Economy
Trucks--American--California--Port Hueneme
Trailers--California--Port Hueneme
War
Secondhand sales--California--Port Hueneme